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scription, then it is clear that Ridgway's definition of "type" is not ours, for 

 he himself (Birds of North and Middle America 3: 468, 1904) gave the type 

 locality as Apache, Arizona, thus inferentially making No. 66704 the 

 lectotype. 



Inasmuch as birds from the neighborhood of Apache represent the race 

 C. f. albescens von Berlepsch, it is, of course, in every way preferable to 

 accept Mount Graham as the restricted type locality, as has been done by 

 the A.O.U. Committee on Nomenclature and Classification, but the five speci- 

 mens listed above must be considered equivalent cotypes. 

 "?" Certhia mexicaiia "Licht." Gloger 



Abandern der Vogel durch Einfluss des Klima's, p. 154, 1833. 

 =Certhia familiaris alticola G. S. Miller. See W. de W. Miller and Gris- 



com, Amer. Mus. Nov. 183: 7, 1925. 

 13588. Adult (sex not indicated). "Mexico." Received from John 



Gould. 

 A specimen of "Certhia mexicana" (No. 8176) , received from John Gould, 

 was entered into the museum register in November 1857; a second, of sim- 

 ilar history, on December 17, 1859. In the case of the second alone, the 

 specific name is underlined, and there is the notation: "original of Mexi- 

 cana." 



Whether or not No. 13588 has a valid place in this list can probably never 

 be decided, for the specimen was at some time in the private collection of 

 Robert Ridgway, who replaced the older labels with his own. 



Hellmayr (Catalogue of birds of the Americas 7: 103, 1934) claims to 

 have examined the type in the museum at Berlin, but there is no reason to 

 suppose that Gloger did not base the name upon two or more cotypes. It 

 may be noted incidentally that the reference given above is one year older 

 than that given by Hellmayr. 

 Cerlhia familiaris nubigena Wetmore 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 53: 51, Apr. 19, 1940. 

 349708. Adult male. Desconsuelo (elev. 10,200 feet). Department of 



Totonicapan, Guatemala. November 24, 1936. Collected by Alexander 



Wetmore. Original number 9442. 

 Certhia familiaris nigrescens Burleigh 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 48: 62, May 3, 1935. 

 301577. Adult male. Mount Mitchell (at elev. 6,600 feet), Yancey 



County, North Carolina. May 8, 1930. Collected by Thomas D. 



Burleigh. Original number 886. Received from the U.S. Fish and 



Wildlife Service. 

 Certhia himalayana infiraia Ripley 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 63: 106, May 25, 1950. 

 408480. Adult male. Tikapur, Kailali District, western Nepal. January 



6, 1949. Collected by S. Dillon Ripley. Original number 443. Na- 

 tional Geographic Society- Yale University-Smithsonian Institution 



Expedition to Nepal. 



